*** Welcome to piglix ***

Hard seat


The Hard seat (Chinese: 硬座; pinyin: yìng zuò), abbreviated YZ, is the cheapest class of seating in China Railway. It is available on non-high-speed trains.

Hard seat derives its name from the hard, wooden seats in the Mao era on regular passenger trains. Modern "hard seats", however, are upholstered.

Each carriage provides the most basic services common to all Chinese trains, namely toilets, wash basins and a boiling water dispenser.

Compared to soft seat, hard seat carriages have more seats per row (2+3 vs. 2+2) and are usually more crowded, and people without seats may stand in hard seat carriages.

The coaches current in use include:

As of 2006, the following ticket price used in most regular lines, but some special lines different price.


...
Wikipedia

...